Sentences with phrase «of fixing things»

You may be well past the point of fixing things.

Fortunately, in most relationships, there are ways of fixing things.

These are «responsive» ways of fixing things, which happen after your child has already encountered a problem.

Not exact matches

Action is, unquestionably, key — there are few things more disingenuous, or discouraging, than soliciting complaints you have no intention of working to fix.

Those with a «fixed mindset» believe things like character, intelligence, and creativity are unchangeable, and avoiding failure is a way of proving skill and smarts.

Following graduation, MacGregor bought a truck and a set of tools, and turned his attention to fixing things; mechanics was more lucrative than engineering, he says.

Some of them got jobs, and a lot of them went successfully into treatment because if you're not spending all your time thinking about how you're going to pay for your next fix, you do have time to think about other things.

The following chart compares business fixed capital investment — money that's put into things such as plants and machinery — in the wake of the last three recessions.

«There is no one single thing that we can do to fix the problem of retaining pilots and developing new pilots,» Wilson said.

Though Canada's provincial revenue volatility troubles have much more to do with resource royalties than personal income taxes, Alberta and Newfoundland could perhaps learn a thing or two from the trials and tribulations south of the border — and how the smartest states are trying to fix the problem.

You hear variations on this theme constantly: Perfect is the enemy of done; move fast and break things; launch it now and fix it later.

To prevent herself from «going down the rabbit hole of fixing little things and building new features,» the development column is half the size of the other two, she says.

And we went and fixed every single one of those things.

And for those exceptional others, they're so busy fanning the flames of success that there's no time to go back and fix things.

«The really cool thing is that all that work for the employer is sort of fixed, no matter how many of these various different spokes it's got connected up to our system,» Conrad says.

Last month, its CEO was in China, taking responsibility for the labour practices of Apple's suppliers and using its marketing power to fix things.

«Or, do you have the grit and resilience, and maybe even the sense of humor, to get up and say, «OK, how do I fix things?»»

«Man, if we could get more really smart MIT computer science graduates to try and fix education and health - care and poverty instead of building another photo - sharing app, that would be a good thing for the world.»

«Given that that was one of the major complaints about the last remote, it's a good thing Apple came up with some sort of fix.

But none of the broken things would be fixed by Donald Trump's proposed budget, which does away with federal subsidization of interest on student loans and eliminates the program that forgives loans for people who enter public service (including teachers)-- among other education - related cuts.

The complete article is chock full of other suggestions, including specifying what type of feedback you're after (so as to avoid your team telling you about things you don't have the time or power to fix) and most importantly, actually acting on at least some of what they tell you.

Sure, fixing this issue on a single small account won't make much of a difference in the grand scheme of things.

Steve Bass writes PC World's monthly «Hassle - Free PC» column and is the author of «PC Annoyances, 2nd Edition: How to Fix the Most Annoying Things About Your Personal Computer,» available from O'Reilly.

Nothing I did for the rest of the trip was nearly as difficult — not hooking up or draining the waste tanks, not fixing a bad connection on the water hose, not even pulling into a crowded gas station (the thing about having a really big car towing a really big, shiny trailer is that people tend to see you, and maybe take pity, and certainly get out of your way)-- and nothing left me with such a giddy glow in the aftermath, even after I learned I'd pulled in a little bit catawampus, and our trailer listed slightly to the left.

In fact, if you don't fix these things, you will be shutting your doors in six months, your receptionist will lose her house, you will have to pull your children out of private school, and your CFO will become a panhandler.

As for this past year, a challenge with skyrocketing growth is that «you only fix the thing that is broken in front of you that moment,» she said.

The Bank of Canada now projects that business «fixed» investment in things like infrastructure and equipment could spur GDP growth by 0.9 % this year, an increase over its previous projection of 0.6 %.

Steve filled the void with shame triggers relating to the appearance of weakness — a man who can't be «the almighty fixer of all things,» Brown said.

Aside from helping you notice the obvious things you need to fix, recording yourself on camera is the most effective means of improving your public speaking for two other reasons:

And then they had to do a lot of things to fix the confidence level.

Of course, all of that would easily be fixed if the NCAA would just move to the one thing most fans want — an 8 - team playofOf course, all of that would easily be fixed if the NCAA would just move to the one thing most fans want — an 8 - team playofof that would easily be fixed if the NCAA would just move to the one thing most fans want — an 8 - team playoff.

«The reason the Republican party essentially forgot to celebrate America this year might have been because they were too busy celebrating Donald Trump's claims that he would fix whatever Donald Trump thinks is wrong with America,» Oliver said before launching into a takedown of the «countless awful things» Trump has said over the past year, stirring up any number of controversies throughout his campaign for the White House.

It's going to be a tough slog to fix this one, it's one of the relatively few things that Harper can point to as a win for his base.

From there to getting it working everywhere was just the problem of figuring out all the test cases that are broken and fixing them and not inventing new fundamental things.

It's not just about having one issue fixed, like establishing better parental leave policies or solving for the wage gap, it's addressing all of these small things that add up to a bigger problem.

So far though (as noted above) there seems to be little sign of improvement, and although the stock is now near all - time lows I won't add to the position unless the current CEO (who has had more than enough time to fix things) is replaced.

He did a whole bunch of things, really quickly, to fix these various attacks and the bugs people started to find as soon as Bitcoin started becoming popular and people started actually looking at it.

Zuckerberg does not actually apologize or use the word «sorry» in his statement — and it's not yet clear if the company's billions of users will trust his promises to fix things.

The important thing to remember is, all other things being equal, a lower student loan interest rate is better than a higher one — but you need to consider all of the terms of the loan including whether the rate is fixed or variable and what your loan repayment options are to ensure you get the best overall deal.

Fixed, focused and direct, they can be used to great success in things like abeyance, corporate actions, mergers, hostile takeovers, or will and testaments A formal agreement, detailing the execution of a planned corporate action.

His 11th book, «The Clash of Cultures: Investment vs. Speculation,» is a highly critical, numbers - driven look at how Wall Street went wrong, how it's screwing up both the economy and our retirement prospects, and what we can do to fix things.

«We need some better level of protection for these things, or we'll be back to fixing them again in no time.»

An article published by Bloomberg — LINK — this morning started off with a rather improbable assertion: «The new fixed - income haven is, of all things, the market for junk bonds.»

In that interview, Navarro (Wilbur Ross said the same thing in a different Bloomberg interview) said the ideal way to fix this problem is for the US to increase exports to the rest of the world.

But now, in the aftermath of the FBI raid on the offices and residences of his most prominent personal attorney and fixer, Michael Cohen — he of the $ 130,000 pre-election payment to the porn star — the same techniques that Trump's lawyers have employed for decades to smooth his business path are the very things that threaten to blow holes in his still - young political career.

The risk assessment process included, among other things, a review of (i) all key incentive compensation plans to ensure that they are aligned with our pay - for - performance philosophy and include performance metrics that meet and support corporate goals, and (ii) the overall compensation mix to ensure an appropriate balance between fixed and variable pay components and between short - term and long - term incentives.

Here are a few common «lack of focus» examples I see amongst founders all the time: — Doing shit that makes them look busy, but doesn't have significant impact — Trying to do too many things instead of one thing really well — Getting things done themselves instead of taking time to build the team — Fundraising when it's not time — Acquiring users when existing ones keep churning — Adding features instead of fixing or removing the ones they have — Having multiple audiences, rather than one very targeted — Paying attention to vanity metrics or too many metrics instead of core KPIs — Following the competition's every move — Obsessing with getting up on TechCrunch (or other press)-- Attending multiple networking events a week

A month ago, I gave Christy Clark the chance to do the right thing and fix this embarrassing record of putting self - interest ahead of democratic fairness.

Order requiring an Orlando, Fla., seller and distributor, of cosmetics and cosmetic distributorships, among other things to cease using its openended, multilevel marketing plan; engaging in illegal price fixing and price discrimination and imposing selling and purchasing restrictions on its distributors; and to cease making exaggerated earnings claims and other misrepresentations in an effort to recruit distributors.

Central banking is perhaps history's best example of government attempting to fix a problem — in this case, the instability resulting from the practice of fractional reserve banking — and making things much worse in the process.